For general information about our Anthology, please see the top-level Voices Israel Anthology page. For how to buy the Anthology, see the Buying the Anthology page.
Paid-up members of Voices Israel are sent a copy of the Anthology whether they are published in it or not, as part of their membership.
The submission period for the Anthology starts in mid-December of the preceding year and runs through mid-March. For instance: the submission period for the 2026 Anthology starts on Sunday December 14th, 2025 and runs through Sunday March 15th, 2026, Israeli time. If necessary we may extend that to the end of March. International submitters: please don’t leave it to the last day to submit, you might find you’ve missed the submission period if you haven’t calculated the time difference correctly!
The editorial board then reviews all submissions, makes its decisions, and sends notices out to contributors. We aim to produce and print the volume by July or August. It is then distributed to paid-up Voices Israel members and others who have ordered and paid for copies. Copyright for individual poems is retained by the author of each poem. Copyright for the anthology belongs to Voices Israel Group of Poets in English.
How to Submit
A button to submit poems appears at the bottom of this page. It functions only during the submissions period. Before clicking on that button please read the following guidelines and instructions.
There is no fee for submitting poems for publication in our Anthology.
Poems must be submitted using the Voices Israel Online Submission Manager, powered by Submittable. This is the only way to submit your poems. Email submissions to any of our team will not be considered.
- You MUST read the full Guidelines at the top of the submission form on the Submittable page.
- Important! Please note that poems must be submitted one by one on Submittable, each poem in a separate submission form.
- The poems submitted must have been written by the submitter. You cannot enter a poem by somebody else.
- The submissions must be made from a Submittable account in the name of the poet. If you submit using someone else’s account (e.g. a relative’s or friend’s), their name not yours will be registered as the name of the poet.
- You may submit a maximum of 3 poems on any subject. We prefer poems that fit on one page (up to 40 lines including stanza breaks but not including title), but we will accept poems of up to 60 lines. Lines longer than 68 characters, including punctuation and spaces between words, will be counted as two lines.
- Poems must be submitted by typing or copying them into the space provided in the online form. We do not accept uploaded files.
- No revisions of poems will be accepted after submission!
- Judging is anonymous and the poems are judged “blind” — the editorial team does not see the poet’s name. Therefore you must not include your name or identifying details anywhere except (if you wish) in your bio, which the judges do not see. (There is no need to include your name anywhere, since the name you registered as the owner of the account is the one the poem is attributed to). Failure to observe this rule will result in that poem not being considered.
- Poems must be previously unpublished. However poems that have been included in the monthly poetry pages attached to our newsletter, or were written at Voices Israel workshops and appeared in the resulting chapbook of the workshop, are not considered “published” (since they were circulated only to a closed group of members, not available to the general public) and will be considered.
- Translations of living poets’ poems are acceptable as long as the translations have not been previously published. If you, the translator, did not author the original poem, you must have the poet’s permission to enter your translation. In that case your bio should make it clear that you are the translator and who the poet is. The bio should be mainly about you since you are the author of the translation.
- Translations of poems by poets no longer alive are accepted only if the poem is no longer in copyright in the country where it was copyrighted. If the poem is still under copyright, the manager or trustee of the poet’s estate, or the publisher of the poem if they hold the copyright, must give permission. Finding out who this is, and obtaining permission from them, is so complicated and time-consuming that we have simply removed the option of including translations of such poems.
- Fancy or unconventional formatting is not encouraged.
To submit one or more poems, click the Submit button below. It will only give the option of submitting to the Anthology during the submission period. (During the Reuben Rose Competition submission period it will display the options for entering that, but not for entering poems to the Anthology!)
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